Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventures in Filmland

"If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle," Marilyn Monroe once said of fame, an...
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Author: Duke Haney
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Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventures in Filmland by Haney, Duke

Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventures in Filmland

$36.13

Death Valley Superstars: Occasionally Fatal Adventures in Filmland

$36.13
Author: Duke Haney
Format: Paperback
Language: English

"If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle," Marilyn Monroe once said of fame, an overriding theme in this collection of essays, profiles, and memoir by showbiz survivor Duke Haney. Fame proved faithful, of course, to Monroe, the book's most iconic subject, while others, like Steve Cochran, a villain in movies and a "hard-drinking, bed-hopping cop magnet" in reality, were widely forgotten before their untimely, often mysterious deaths. Taking an experimental tack in some instances, Haney employs a psychic medium to conduct a s ance at Jim Morrison's former residence and an astrologer to interpret the birth chart of an astrology-crazed film star-turned-bank robber. He attends the funeral of the "next James Dean" who became a raggedy street person, performs a cringeworthy nude scene in a movie produced by "King of the Bs" Roger Corman, and searches for the camper van where funk trailblazer Sly Stone has been reduced to living. Painstakingly researched and compulsively readable, Death Valley Superstars offers a kind of midnight tour of Los Angeles past and present, highlighting hidden corridors and seldom-heard anecdotes about a few of the many who, fooled by Hollywood's mirages, found themselves caught in its quicksand.



Author: Duke Haney
Publisher: Delancey Street Press
Published: 12/24/2018
Pages: 306
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780692172391

About the Author
Haney, Duke: - Born and raised in Virginia, Duke Haney, aka Daryl Haney, has spent most of his adult life working in the movie business as an actor and screenwriter, with twenty feature-film credits as the former and twenty-two as the latter. He used pseudonyms for some of the screenplays and went by D. R. Haney as the author of Banned for Life, a novel, and Subversia, an essay collection. After he was struck by a car in a crosswalk in Hollywood, a friend claimed he walked like John Duke Wayne and gave him the nickname by which most people know him and he has adopted belatedly as his pen name. He plans to follow his latest essay collection, Death Valley Superstars, with a novel tentatively titled XXX.

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